Laundry-extractor.



i. W, CADWELL.

LAUNDRY EXTRACTOR.

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Patented July 18, 1916.

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LAUNDRY-EXTRAQTOR.

specificati ter's Extent. 'Patentedtluly 18, 1916. I

Application filed December 28, 1915. Serial No. 69,033.

To all whom it may concern L' Be it known that I, IRVING W. CADWELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry- Extractors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the extraction of water from articles being laundried, and the main object thereof is to provide means for accomplishing this result in an easier and through one form of embodiment of my invention, as on the line 1-1'of Fig. 2; Fig.

. 2 is a section taken on the'line 2-2 of Fig.

1;'and Fig. 3 is a section takenon the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In' the drawings forming a part of this. application I have shown a floor or plat-' form 4, .within a laundry, above and beneath which is a frame 5' shown; as of T- bars carrying a latform 6 beneath the floor 4 and cross-hea s 7 and 8 at its top above said floojr, Arranged on the platform 6 is a jack 9, of pneumatic type, provided with a piston 10, a hollowrod 11 thereon project ing through and slightly above the floor a when the piston is in lowermost position, and with a supply pipe 12, any suitable equivalent of which jack might be provided. Vertically 'slidable in the cross-heads 7 and 8 is a rod 13 screwthreaded for a portion of its length to engage" an internally threaded hand-wheel 14 confined between said cross-heads and whereby said rod may be vertically adjusted. The rod .13 carries; a-presser-plate 15 at its lower end and a cross-head 16 at its upper end the arms of which, four in number, are secured to vertical rods 17 slidable in guides 18 on the frame 5..

At 19 I have shown a truck provided with wheels 20, a tank 21, a drain 22 therefor, and a perforated basket 23 within said tank and separated from the walls thereof, braces 24 being shown at the corners and which braces are provided with perforations 25 slightly greater 1n diameter than the diameter of the rods 17 and so arrangedas to receive said rods in a manner and for a purpose later explained.

The truck 19 is rolled to a" washing machine and the articles 'just washed in the latter are deposited within the basket 23,

after which the truck is rolled within the frame 5 in such position as to receive the rods 17 when the hand-wheel 14 is revolved in the proper direction to lower the rod 13, this movement also carrying the presserplate into the basket 23, the lowering of the rod 13, however, being only so far as to engage the rods 17 with the truck to guide the latter in its vertical movement and to insure a closure of the top of the basket 23. When the parts are in this position, the fluid is admitted to the jack to raise the piston and thus raise the truckfrom the floor 4 and which truck movement squeezes the water out of the clothes or other articles in the basket, thewater passing throughithe .perforations of the basket and through the drain and maybe led to any desired point,

such as a sewer.

From the foregoing it, will be seen that I avoid the present necessity of loading the clothes from the washing machine into a truck and from the truck into the extractor, my truck and extractor basket constituting a unit and, because of the jack 9, the presser ccurs with but one handling of the clothes instead of two as at present. v While I have shownone form of embodiover may suggest themselves and still be within the spirit of the. inventionand within the scope of the appended claim. L

Having fully described my invention,

plate 15, and the truck guides, the extraction what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

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